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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Michele Bachmann: Still Full Of Sh*t

We haven't heard
from Michele Bachmann in a while, and I, for one, miss her; well, I mostly miss
her particular brand of crazy, of lying, and completely distorting the facts
and disregarding the truth. She is always good for a giggle or three.

She's been back in the news of late for a couple of reasons. First, there
was her lukewarm,I guess he'll
do, endorsement of Mittsy for President. Then came SwissGate, where it
was announced she'd accepted dual citizenship in both America and Switzerland,
because her wife, Marcus, is of Swiss heritage. Of course, the moment after
that story broke, she denounced her Swiss citizenship and pledges her undying
allegiance to America and only America.

And now this: In several recent, urgent...bordering of
frantic...fundraising appeals, Michele "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann has been
lying to her supporters; I know, nothing new there. But, she's saying that
::::gasp:::: biased “liberal judges” have redrawn her congressional district
“in retaliation for repeatedly standing up to President Obama.”

Not
so fast, Madame Crazy. The truth is that only two of the five judges were
Democratic appointees--which means the majority Republican judges are to blame--and,
after the lines were redrawn, Bachmann's district ismore Republican.

Now, it is true
that thebipartisanpanel of judges redrew
district lines and placed the town where Bachmann lives inside another district
represented by a Democrat, but Bachmann can still run for the 6th District, the
one she has represented since 2007, and she doesn’t even have to move to do
that.

In that email, sent to the one or
maybe two national supporters of her failed presidential bid, Bachmann writes,
“You and I must NOT allow the courts to defeat me by moving me out of my
district at such a pivotal election. To hand the Obama Democrats this victory
now would be to destroy all we have built over these last six years.”

Of course, then she asks for “a commitment to my campaign in the amount
of $2,500, $1,000, $500, $250, $100, $70, or $35 today.”

And, contrary to Bachmann's assertion that the development “just
occurred,” the panel issued its redistricting decision on February
21.

Now, it is true that the newly drawn plans moved Bachmann’s home in
Stillwater into the 4th Congressional District, but David Wasserman, a
political analyst at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, says the decision
was perfectly logical. The 4th District, which takes in St. Paul, simply had
not grown as fast as the rest of the state and needed to pick up population,
while the 6th District had grown so quickly, it needed to lose population.

“This was not a partisan map,” Wasserman said. “Her assertions are
baloney.”

Still, it amuses me no end that one of the Chief Wacknuts of the GOP
lives in what many consider a "safe" Democratic district, even though Wasserman says the move actually is better for her, because now the 6th
District is more Republican, and therefore more apt to elect a lunatic like
Michele Bachmann.

But that’s certainly not the impression Bachmann leaves in the email
when she states: “As the TEA Party Caucus Chairwoman in the U.S. House and one
of President Obama’s sharpest critics, the Democrats are licking their chops
over Minnesota’s new political map and will spend MILLIONS to defeat me.”